2016-2017 Nebraska Public Libraries Survey

2016-2017 Nebraska Public Libraries Survey

Survey Submission Deadline: February 16th, 2018

1.0 General Data

1.1 / Legal Name of Library
1.2 / Street Address
1.3 / Mailing Address
1.4 / City
1.5 / 5-digit Zip code
1.6 / County
1.7 / Library Telephone Number(enter as 402-123-4567)
1.8 / Library Fax Number(enter as 308-123-4567)
1.9 / Web Address of Library (URL)
1.10 / Library Director’s Email Address
1.11 / Regional Library System
1.12 / Local Population (2016Official Census Estimate)
1.13 / Population of Legal Service Area

2.0Library Facility (Central Library, Branches, and Bookmobiles)

2.1 / Number of branch libraries
2.2 / Number of bookmobiles
2.3 / Year current library facility was built
2.4 / Year of latest addition/major renovation
2.5 / Is this facility accessible?
2.6 / Is the library board or foundation board currently working on a building plan or project?
2.7 / Is there currently an active fundraising campaign for a new or renovated library building?
2.8 / Is a new library construction or renovation project currently underway in your community?
2.9 / If a new library construction or renovation project is currently underway in your community, what is the projected completion date?
The following questions refer to outlet data and most of these fields cannot be altered. Questions 2.18-2.21 and 2.24-2.30 are locked; if you need to make a notation, do so using the State Notepad.
2.10 / FSCS ID
2.11 / LIB ID
2.12 / Name
2.13 / Street Address
2.14 / City
2.15 / 5-digit Zip code
2.16 / County of the Outlet
2.17 / Phone
2.18 / Outlet Type Code
2.19 / Metropolitan Status Code
2.20 / Library Building(s) square footage
2.21 / Number of Bookmobiles in the Bookmobile Outlet Record
2.22 / Hours open for public service per year for each outlet, including central units, branches, and bookmobiles.
Minor variations in public service hours need not be included. Extensive hours closed to the public due to natural disasters or other events should be excluded from the count.
2.23 / Number of weeks per year each library outlet is open.
For each bookmobile, count only the weeks during which the bookmobile is open to the public. The count should be based on the number of weeks that a library outlet was open for half or more of its scheduled service hours. Extensive weeks closed to the public due to natural disasters or other events should be excluded from the count. Do not calculate based on total number of service hours per year at the outlet level. For example, by dividing total hours by the average hours open per week.Round to the nearest whole number of weeks. If the library was open half or more of its scheduled hours in a given week, round up to the next week. If the library was open less than half of its scheduled hours, round down
2.24 / Legal Basis Code
2.25 / Administrative Structure Code
2.26 / Geographic Code
2.27 / FSCS Public Library Definition
2.28 / Interlibrary Relationship Code
2.29 / Legal Service Area Boundary Change
2.30 / Number of Central Libraries
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2.31 / Public Service Hours Per Year (sum of all outlets - 2.22)

3.0Library Finance

3.1 / Start date of Fiscal year
3.2 / End date of Fiscal year

Revenue (Income)

Local Government Operating Revenue: This includes all local government funds, designated by the community, district, or region and available for expenditure by the public library. If the city, township, or county, pays some of the library expenses directly (e.g., salaries, utilities, insurance, grounds maintenance, etc.) on behalf of the library, these amounts should also be reported here.Do not include the value of any contributed or in-kind services or the value of any gifts and donations, library fines, fees, or grants.

3.3 / City or VillageRevenue
Please list all Townships that contribute funds to your library’s operation
3.4 / Township Name (if contributes funds for the library)
3.5 / Township Revenue Amount
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Please list all Counties that contribute funds to your library’s operation
3.6 / County Name (if contributes funds for the library)
3.7 / County Revenue Amount
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3.8 / Other Local Government Revenue - Description
3.9 / Other Local Government Revenue - Amount
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3.10 / Total Local Government Revenue (3.3 + 3.5 + 3.7 + 3.9):

State Government Revenue: These are all funds distributed to public libraries by Nebraska state government for expenditure by the public libraries. This does not include federal money distributed by the state. This does include funds received as Library State aid.

3.11 / Library State Aid
3.12 / NLC Youth grant
3.13 / NLC Continuing Education/Training Grant
3.14 / Other State Government Revenue
3.15 / Total State Government Revenue (3.11 + 3.12 + 3.13 + 3.14):

Federal Government Revenue: This includes all federal government funds distributed to public libraries, including federal money distributed by the Library Commission as Library Improvement grants.

3.16 / Federal Library Improvement Grant
3.17 / Other Federal grant source
3.18 / Other Federal grant amount
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3.19 / Total Federal Government Revenue (3.16 + 3.18):

Other Revenue:This is all operating revenue other than that reported under local, state, and federal operating revenue. Include, for example, monetary gifts and donations received in the current year, interest, library fines, fees for library services, or grants. Do not include the value of any contributed or in-kind services or the value of any non-monetary gifts and donations.

3.20 / Lender Compensation (paid by the Nebraska Library Commission)
3.21 / Regional LibrarySystem Grant(s)
3.22 / Other (specify source)
3.23 / Other Amount
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3.24 / Total Other Revenue (3.20 + 3.21 + 3.23):
3.25 / Total Operating Revenue (3.10 + 3.15 + 3.19 + 3.24):

Capital Revenue
Report all revenue to be used for major capital expenditures.

Include funds received for a) site acquisition; b) new buildings; c) additions to or renovation of library buildings; d) furnishings, equipment, and initial collections (print, non-print, and electronic) for new buildings, building additions, or building renovations; e) computer hardware and software used to support library operations, to link to networks, or to run information products; f) new vehicles; and g) other one-time major projects.

Exclude revenue to be used for replacement and repair of existing furnishings and equipment, regular purchase of library materials, and investments for capital appreciation. Exclude income passed through to another agency (e.g., foundations), or funds unspent in the previous fiscal year (e.g., carryover). Funds transferred from one public library to another public library should be reported by only one of the public libraries.

3.26 / Local Government Capital Revenue
3.27 / State Government Capital Revenue
3.28 / Federal Government Capital Revenue
3.29 / Other Capital Revenue
3.30 / Total Capital Revenue (3.26 + 3.27 + 3.28 + 3.29)

Non-resident Fees

3.31 / Does the library charge a non-resident fee? (Do not include fees charged for NebrasKard)
3.32 / If yes, who is charged for service?
If yes, what is the annual fee?
3.33 / Individual
3.34 / Household
3.35 / Number of non-resident cards issued this year

Expenditures

Operating Expenditures:Operating Expenditures: Report current and recurrent costs necessary to support library services. Significant costs, especially benefits and salaries that are paid by other taxing agencies (government agencies with the authority to levy taxes) on behalf of the library should be included.Please do not report capital expenditures under this category.

3.36 / Salaries and Wages
3.37 / Employee Benefits(including Social Security and FICA)
3.38 / Total Staff Expenditures (3.36 + 3.37):
Please indicate which of the following benefits listed are provided to the library director
3.39 / Health Insurance
3.40 / Life Insurance
3.41 / Unemployment Compensation
3.42 / Sick Leave
3.43 / Vacation Leave
3.44 / Retirement Plan
3.45 / Family Leave
3.46 / Travel To Meetings, Conferences
3.47 / Professional Memberships (NLA, ALA, Etc.)
3.48 / Continuing Education Workshops
3.49 / Other (Please Specify)

Collection Expenditures: This includes all operating expenditures from the library budget for materials in print, microform, electronic and other formats considered part of the collection, whether purchased, leased, or licensed. Exclude charges or fees paid for interlibrary loans and expenditures madefor document delivery.

3.50 / Library Materials in Print Format
3.51 / Library Materials in Electronic Format (such as OverDrive and database/electronic collection expenditures)
3.52 / Other Materials (includes audio and video physical units—Playaways, CD’s, and DVD’s)
3.53 / Total Collection Expenditures (3.50 + 3.51 + 3.52)

Other Operating Expenditures

3.54 / Facility
3.55 / Utilities
3.56 / Office supplies
3.57 / Postage
3.58 / Telephone
3.59 / Insurance
3.60 / Contracts-for-services
3.61 / Computer hardware, accessories, and software
3.62 / Electronic access(include online OPAC fees here)
3.63 / Continuing Education
3.64 / Miscellaneous
3.65 / Total Other Operating Expenditures (3.54 + 3.55 + 3.56 + 3.57 + 3.58 + 3.59 + 3.60 + 3.61 + 3.62 + 3.63+ 3.64):
3.66 / Total Operating Expenditures (3.38 + 3.53 + 3.65)
3.67 / Total Capital Expenditures

4.0 Library Collections

This section of the survey collects data on selected types of materials. It does not cover all materials (i.e., microform, scores, maps, and pictures) for which expenditures are reported under Print Materials Expenditures, Electronic Materials Expenditures, and Other Material Expenditures (data elements #3.50, #3.51, and #3.52). Under this category, report only items the library has acquired as part of the collection, whether purchased, leased, licensed, or donated as gifts.

Books (Print Format):REPORT ONLY BOOKS IN PRINT. DO NOT INCLUDE SERIAL BACK FILES IN PRINT.

4.1 / Number of books held at end of previous fiscal year
4.2 / Number of booksadded during year (+)
4.3 / Number of books withdrawn during year (-)
4.4 / Books held at end of current year (4.1 + 4.2 - 4.3):

Electronic Books (E-Books):E-books are digital documents (including those digitized by the library), licensed or not, where searchable text is prevalent, and which can be seen in analogy to a printed book (monograph). Include non-serial government documents. E-books are loaned to users on portable devices (e-book readers) or by transmitting the contents to the user’s personal computer for a limited time. Include e-books held locally and remote e-books for which permanent or temporary access rights have been acquired. Report the number of physical or electronic units, including duplicates, for all outlets. For smaller libraries, if volume data are not available, the number of titles may be counted. E-books packaged together as a unit (e.g., multiple titles on a single ebook reader) and checked out as a unit are counted as one unit.Please exclude public domain / uncopyrighted e-books that have unlimited access (e.g., Project Gutenberg).

Report the number of units. Report only items the library has selected as part of the collection.

NOTE: For purposes of this survey, units are defined as “units of acquisition or purchase”. The “unit” is determined by considering whether the item is restricted to a finite number of simultaneous users or an unlimited number of simultaneous users.

Finite simultaneous use: units of acquisition or purchase is based on the number of simultaneous usages acquired (equivalent to purchasing multiple copies of a single title). For example, if a library acquires a title with rights to a single user at a time, then that item is counted as 1 “unit”; if the library acquires rights to a single title for 10 simultaneous users, then that item is counted as 10 “units”

Unlimited simultaneous use: units of acquisition or purchase is based on the number of titles acquired. For example, if a library acquires a collection of 100 books with unlimited simultaneous users, then that collection would be counted as 100 “units”.

4.5 / Number of E-books held as part of the Nebraska OverDrive Libraries Group (shared collection)
4.6 / Number of E-books held as part of other consortia (shared collection)
4.7 / Number of E-books held locally by the library (not part of a shared collection)
4.8 / E-Booksheld at end of current year (4.5 + 4.6+4.7):

Audio – Physical units: These are materials circulated in a fixed, physical format on which sounds (only) are stored (recorded) and that can be reproduced (played back) mechanically, electronically, or both. Include records, audiocassettes, audio cartridges, audio discs (including audio-CD-ROMs), audio-reels, talking books, and other sound recordings stored in a fixed, physical format. Do not include downloadable electronic audio files.

Report the number of units, including duplicates. Items packaged together as a unit (e.g. two audiocassettes for one recorded book) and checked out as a unit are counted as one physical unit.

4.9 / Number of audio physical units held at end of previous fiscal year
4.10 / Number of audio physical units added during year (+)
4.11 / Number of audio physical units withdrawn during year (-)
4.12 / Audio physical units held at end of current year (4.9 + 4.10–4.11):

Audio – Downloadable Units: These are downloadable electronic files on which sounds (only) are stored (recorded) and that can be reproduced (played back) electronically. Report the number of units. Report only items the library has selected as part of the collection.

4.13 / Number of Audio Downloadable titles held as part of the Nebraska OverDrive Libraries Group (shared collection)
4.14 / Number of Audio Downloadable titles held as part of other consortia (shared collection)
4.15 / Number of Audio Downloadable titles held locally by the library (not part of a shared collection)
4.16 / Audio downloadable titles held at end of current year (4.13 + 4.14 + 4.15):

Video – Physical units:These are materials circulated in a fixed, physical format on which moving pictures are recorded, with or without sound. Electronic playback reproduces pictures, with or without sound, using a television receiver or computer monitor. Video formats may include tape, DVD and CD-ROM. Do not include downloadable electronic video files.

Report the number of units, including duplicates. Items packaged together as a unit (e.g. two audiocassettes for one recorded book) and checked out as a unit are counted as one physical unit.

4.17 / Number of video physical units held at end of previous fiscal year
4.18 / Number of video physical units added during year (+)
4.19 / Number of video physical units withdrawn during year (-)
4.20 / Video physical units held at end of current year (4.17 + 4.18 – 4.19):

Video – Downloadable Units:These are downloadable electronic files on which moving pictures are recorded, with or without sound. Electronic playback reproduces pictures, with or without sound, using a television receiver, computer monitor or video-enabled mobile device.

Report the number of units. Report only items the library has selected as part of the collection.

4.21 / Number of video downloadable titles held as part of consortia (shared collection)
4.22 / Number of video downloadable titles held locally by the library (not part of a shared collection)
4.23 / Video downloadable titles held at end of current year (4.21 + 4.22):

Print SerialsSubscriptions:Report the number of current print serial subscriptions, including duplicates, for all outlets. Examples of serials are periodicals (magazines), newspapers, annuals, some government documents, some reference tools, and numbered monographic series.

4.24 / Number of print serials subscriptions held at end of previous fiscal year
4.25 / Number of print serials subscriptionsadded during year (+)
4.26 / Number of print serials subscriptions withdrawn during year (-)
4.27 / Print Serial Subscriptions held at end of current year (4.24 + 4.25 - 4.26):

Other Materials: Include here other materials in the library's collection, not already counted. This could include pamphlets, framed art, sculpture, cake pans, patterns, or any other items the library circulates to the public.

4.28 / Description of Other Materials
4.29 / Number of other materials held at end of previous fiscal year
4.30 / Number of other materials added during year (+)
4.31 / Number of other materials withdrawn during year (-)
4.32 / Other Materials held at end of current year (4.29 + 4.30- 4.31):

Total Collection:

4.33 / Total materials held at end of previous fiscal year (4.1 + 4.9 + 4.17 + 4.24 + 4.29)
4.34 / Total materials added during year (4.2 +4.10 + 4.18 + 4.25+ 4.30)
4.35 / Total materials withdrawn during year (4.3 + 4.11 + 4.19 + 4.26 + 4.31)
4.36 / Total materials held at end of current year (4.4 + 4.8 + 4.12 + 4.16 + 4.20 + 4.23+ 4.27 + 4.32)

5.0 Library Services

5.1 / Number of registered borrowers
5.2 / Annual Library Visits
5.3 / Annual Reference Transactions
5.4 / Annual Uses of Public Internet Computers
5.5 / Circulation of Adult Materials(excluding downloadable materials)
5.6 / Circulation of Adult Downloadable Materials (Such asOverDrive ebooks & digital audio or video material) – Prefilled number is for OverDrive circulations only. If you have another vendor, you will need to add those circulations to the prefilled number.
5.7 / Total Annual Circulation of Adult Materials (5.5 + 5.6)
5.8 / Circulation of Children’s Materials (excluding downloadable materials)
5.9 / Circulation of Children’s Downloadable Materials (Such as OverDrive ebooks & digital audio or video material) – Prefilled number is for OverDrive circulations only. If you have another vendor, you will need to add those circulations to the prefilled number.
5.10 / Total Annual Circulation of Children’s Materials (5.8 + 5.9)
5.11 / Total Physical Item Circulation (5.5 +5.8)
5.12 / Use of Electronic Materials (5.6 + 5.9)
5.13 / Total Circulation of library materials (5.11 +5.12)